Thesis defence

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Evaluating the Ability of Commercial Search Engines to Help People Answer Health Questions

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3102.

Kamyar Ghajar, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mark Smucker, Charles Clarke

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • An In-Depth Exploration of the High-Quality Entity Linking for Information Retrieval: MMEAD

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Luyun Lin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Graph Morphing via Orthogonal Box Drawings

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Jack Spalding-Jamieson, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Anna Lubiw, Therese Biedl

Monday, November 27, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Quantifying, Characterizing, and Leveraging Cross-Disciplinary Dependencies

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Gengyi Sun, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Friday, January 12, 2024 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Quantitative Finance • A General Neural Network Methodology for Multi-period Portfolio Optimization

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

Monday, November 20, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • VisConductor: Affect-Varying Gestural Widgets for Animating Data Visualization in Augmented Video Presentations

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Temiloluwa Femi-Gege, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, November 3, 2023 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Quantum Ray Marching: Reformulating Light Transport for Quantum Computers

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Logan Mosier, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Bioinformatics • Improving Peptide Identification in Proteomics Data Analysis through Repeat-Preserving Decoy and Decoy-Free Retraining

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Johra Muhammad Moosa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Bin Ma